While visiting, we learned that Beavers particularly enjoy wood from fruit trees. Those questions always led to voluntary research and learning, followed by more questions, and more research and learning. My kiddos weren’t all that excited about their textbooks, but they would ask five million questions before, during and after each Friday field trip. To you, it might look like your child is hopping back and forth, criss-crossing a landscape in no particular order.īut your child is learning all about everything to do with that new place, digging deeper into the things that particularly interest him, just scratching the surface in others, and just generally creating an immense file in which to organize all of the things he is learning about this wide, wondrous world - all the things that help him to make sense of it. When you take a child someplace interesting (I call interesting place question-pullers) you are opening a whole new world of rabbit trails for that child. You can only stop them by, well, forcing them to sit in a desk in a classroom. They want to learn about and make sense of the world around them. It was our first foray into delight directed learning!Ĭhildren are born with boundless curiosity. That field trip group helped me to see, through experience, that my kids learned more from a fascinating, two-hour, Friday morning tour of a water treatment plant than from an entire Geological study of the water cycle. That decision ended up drastically influencing my homeschool for the better - and not just because we attended field trips every Friday. Why Field Trips Matter to Your Homeschool And then I talked with a few other moms about their ideas, which sounded fantastic.
I was probably wondering how it would affect our Latin syllabus.ĭuring that first meeting the group leaders assigned out dates for field trips (each mom had to plan and execute two field trips during the year) and I received an assignment. 17 years ago is a little blurry for me, but I do remember attending their first meeting, where they were organizing field trips for the year, and thinking to myself, “We can’t take off school every Friday!”
The one thing I did do right that year was join a field-trip group full of more experienced homeschoolers. So I bought mountains of textbooks and curriculum, overjoyed at the thought that we’d all be speaking Latin and solving multivariable equations by Christmas! I thought and researched, and the only I idea I could come up with for “better” was more rigorous. But I wanted our homeschool to be better than what I had grown up with, only I couldn’t really define better. When I first began homeschooling 17 years ago, there were fewer resources for homeschoolers, so I just created what I had grown up - school at our kitchen table. Field trips are something I’m passionate about, and that’s why I’m sharing all of my best field trip ideas today.
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